Railways around Peterborough and The National Rail Network & Heritage railways in the UK

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The Leicester To Peterborough Railway Line

Oakham to Stamford

Leicester to Peterborough

Heritage Railways

North Luffenham

This was the Luffenham Junction signal box in the late 1970s. This box was at North Luffenham near Stamford on the Peterborough to Leicester line.

The branch line to Seaton, which was why there was a junction here had closed in 1966, at about the same time as the station here at North Luffenham.

The level crossing at North Luffenham now barriers. photo in July 2010

Class 47 on a fly ash train at North Luffenham.

Cross Country class 170 637 at North Luffenham on a Birminghan train past the closed station here in 2010. New ani-vandell fencing has replaced the old fencing, but the concreat posts were not removed.

Next page along the line between Manton junction and Stamford

The line from Syston Junction to Peterborough. Most of the passenger trains are class 170 or 158 units from Birmingham via Leicester to Peterborough March Ely and Cambridge and on to Stanstead airport. Container trains and stone hoppers and Ballast are the main freight trains.